Upcoming free event: Wagtail Space 2025
16 September 2025
A quick reminder that Wagtail Space 2025 is happening next month (October) from Wednesday 8th to Friday 10th.
Blog
Wagtail UI team update #1
7 August 2025
For a month or so now, I've been a member of the Wagtail core UI team and thought it would be helpful to provide an overview of what we do (...and hopefully encourage others to join!).
Local (Linux) setup for Wagtail core development
22 July 2025
Using the Wagtail documentation as a base, this post describes my process for setting up a local core development environment, specifically on a Linux machine with Debian.
How to create a Django admin theme
16 June 2025
Recently, I've been experimenting with creating 'Django 95', a Django admin theme that replicates the look and feel of the Windows 95 UI.
Understanding Wagtail's settings files (base.py, dev.py, production.py, and local.py)
18 April 2025
By default, Wagtail generates three settings files—base.py, dev.py, and production.py. In combination with a fourth, local.py, which can be created manually if required, these files help manage settings configurations across different environments.
How to build a simple Wagtail Streamfield code block with highlight.js
12 March 2025
By default, the formatting features displayed in Wagtail's RichTextField can be modified to include code, which then allows a user to enter inline code. However, there is no such default means of supporting code blocks.
How to configure Gunicorn to serve multiple Django and Wagtail projects
19 February 2025
An overview of Django/Wagtail + DigitalOcean + Gunicorn with multiple socket and service files.
How to add Atom feeds for each django-plugin-blog tag
6 January 2025
An overview of using Django's syndication framework to supplement django-plugin-blog's default Atom feed and add Atom feeds for every blog tag.
How I built this (Django) blog
24 November 2024
For those who are curious... this blog was built using Simon Willison's django-plugin-blog package, which is a plugin for DJP, his recently announced plugin system for Django.
Welcome
22 November 2024
Hi everyone, I'm Laurence, a Django and Wagtail developer from London, UK. Welcome and thanks for reading.